🔐 Encrypted app targets deepfake risk in allied comms

Battelle unveiled a sprayable liquid that changes color on contact with specific biological agents, delivering visible results without specialized equipment or handheld detectors.

The proprietary protein-based formulation binds to targeted threats, identifying specific substances rather than flagging general contamination the way conventional surface detection systems do.

Developed for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the technology was demonstrated at Scout 26 before Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy and National Guard representatives.

NSA deputy director Tim Kosiba said the agency wants access to all commercial AI models and is in extensive talks with frontier developers.

A June executive order created a voluntary program letting developers hand the government up to 30 days of pre-release access, explicitly barring any licensing mandate.

NSA's director decides which systems qualify as covered frontier models, placing the agency at the center of federal testing for AI hacking capability.

The FBI seized three domains tied to QScan and QTRouter, tools prosecutors attribute to hacking group QTFY operating through a Nanjing technology company.

Targets included NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate and the Energy, Justice and Health and Human Services departments, plus hospitals, banks and defense contractors.

QScan carried code for more than 200 attacks and processed over two million scanning or exploitation tasks in a single day in 2024.

A small number of US special operators are testing Kibu, an encrypted messaging app built to verify that the party on the other end is human.

Kibu pairs device encryption with biometric authentication, is not tied to a SIM card or phone number, and supports duress passcodes and organization-hosted environments.

The app lets operators build sandboxed AI agents to communicate with unmanned systems, requiring biometric proof and a decision quorum before actions are authorized.

The Marine Corps released Ground Combat Element 2040, a 15-year plan pushing squad-level air defense, loitering munitions and autonomous robots while holding that technology never replaces human judgment.

Anti-tank missile gunners would become precision strike specialists with roughly 20 kilometers of organic reach, and the service bought 400,000 frangible 5.56 rounds for downing drones.

The document delegates broad lethal and non-lethal authorities to colonel-level commands and calls for AI-enabled command and control now being tested through Project Dynamis.

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